Hello, Mortals.

Death in the afternoon is a new podcast for people who will die,

which means I'm talking to you.

That's right, even you, Carl.

We're a podcast from The Order of the Good Death, the home of the Death Positive movement. I'm one of your hosts, Caitlin Doherty, mortician and Home Owner, and host of the web series, Ask a Mortician.

Each week I'll be joined by my right-hand women, the ones you call in the middle of the night

to move a dead body, Sarah Chavez and Louise hung.

Every episode of our first season will have a theme.

We'll cover the basics for the death noobes.

Why do people always think that anybody who's been around corpses must have murdered them?

It's that whole Norman Bates to freedom.

There's this very rural area in Indonesia where the family live with the embalmed dead bodies of their

loved ones four years. Women would play a huge role in paving the way for

cremations in the US. Really? How so? But be prepared for some deep dives.

Smoke laced with human remains particulate.

Wait, wait, laced with human remains particulate.

I don't know what that is supposed to mean. Is that even, is that in the article? That phrase?

Martha and William kept Willis body underneath their bedroom floor in a custom-made crypt,

along with the bodies of seven dead dogs.

Is the story just that there were disembodied feet washing ashore?

And some stories you've never heard before.

They try to rebuild Miguel's grave both times he busts out like the Kool-Aid Man,

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